5.01.2014

LAUREN HENKIN: The Park at Foley Gallery

"One photograph stuck with me the most (This Park #31). There was something about the way the branches coexists with the building’s reflection. There was a harmony between the built and the natural that I hadn’t expected to see in New York. I became very aware, and very sensitized to the architecture that lives on the periphery of the park. And scale—the extreme differences between the buildings and us...." read more here

"For me, it’s as much about seeing the light on the
softball field as it is about the softball. It’s as much about the deep
grooves in the rocks as it is about the rock-climbing. It’s as much
about the sun on your back as it is about sunbathing. My work is not so
much about subject. It’s about developing an intimate relationship with
a viewer so that there can be some kind of emotional response to the
photographs...." read more here